Lady lushes : gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America /

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In Lady Lushes, medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources--including medical literature, archival materials, popular media, and autobiographical writings of alcoholic women-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McClellan, Michelle L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine
Temas:
Women > Alcohol use > United States > History.
Women alcoholics > United States > History.
Alcoholism > United States > History.
Femmes > Consommation d'alcool > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes alcooliques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Alcoolisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL > History.
Alcoholism.
Women > Alcohol use.
Women alcoholics.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The female inebriate in the temperance paradigm
  • "Lit ladies": women's drinking during the Progressive era and Prohibition
  • "More to overcome than the men": women in Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Defining a disease: gender, stigma, and the modern alcoholism movement
  • "A special masculine neurosis": psychiatrists look at alcoholism
  • "The doctor didn't want to take an alcoholic": the challenge of medicalization at mid-century.

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